That's a very nice looking phone. It'll be my first smart phone. All my friends and former colleagues are baffled I have never bought a smart phone, but they knew it would never be anything but the platform we helped bring to Apple and worked/tested on at Apple.
P.S. I dig the banding for the antennas. Beautiful merging of scientific design.
What are you talking about "decorative"? Apple does not do decorative.
For all you know, those inserts you're calling "bands" are the antennas, made of ceramic mixed with sintered metal, with electrical connections to the inside. Just an example of what they could be.
The leap to hand-wringing here is just astounding. The first thing you should do is trust that Apple knows what they are doing.
And another thing. I think they look good. Inlaying elements flush into plain—or plane—surfaces always adds tactile and visual interest, but the effect can only be appreciated with the device in your hand. When you see it in a 2D photograph only, it is your impoverished left brain that's doing the judging.
For all you know this is just a fake mockup... I hope it is
Yes there is! It compromises the entire design, for an incredibly stupid reason!
Don't use your phone in the pool! Unbelievable.
The same people who bitch about the lack of waterproof as a must have feature demand the iPad be a half a pound/270+ grams lighter for when they lie their lazy ass on their back looking up to read: something you ergonomically should never do as you tend to fall asleep.
They scoff at lifting some weights [like 5 lbs] so it is not surprising they'd shit a brick over style that they themselves know will eventually be copied by every damn vendor on the planet.
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We don't? I would vehemently disagree. I'm sure you're paying close enough attention to know the actual cover glass for the 4.7" has leaked, and it indeed curves at the edges, to match up to the curving sides.
Case closed as far as I'm concerned.
Until Apple decides to show us something there is nothing that can be proven. A rumoured leaked product from something that is commonly cloned in China is not a smoking gun. All you have is a bunch of circumstantial evidence and history that tells you that the odds of it being accurate are excellent but that isn't proof.
Only a moron embedded lossless PNGs, each at 1.4MB when an equivalent non-compressed JPEG is 206.8 KB.
Throw in 4 more and you're pissing bandwidth costs for your server.
Link to a much larger makes sense, but to embed into the page a bloated PNG not designed for this purpose is truly says one is ignorant of graphic formats.
Only a moron embedded lossless PNGs, each at 1.4MB when an equivalent non-compressed JPEG is 206.8 KB.
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Throw in 4 more and you're pissing bandwidth costs for your server.
Link to a much larger makes sense, but to embed into the page a bloated PNG not designed for this purpose is truly says one is ignorant of graphic formats.
Is that why they took so long to load? I was on my iPhone and thought it was my cellular data connection but when other sites were fine I then loaded a different AI page which was fine so I then reloaded the images. That's pretty shitty.
The bands might have purpose - Just few wild guesses
1. It might be translucent light, similar to the Macbook Apple logo. Different light means different thing.
2. Could there be hidden sensors?
3. Could be contact points for wireless charging?
They surround the metal antenna inserted into the previously-seen recesses in the ends of the bare metal backshell, incidentally putting paid to the hysteria about the "protruding" camera lens. These may be the antennas for this unnecessary NFC feature, since that's so much longer-wavelength that the plastic insert in the Apple logo wouldn't do the job.
Only a moron embedded lossless PNGs, each at 1.4MB when an equivalent non-compressed JPEG is 206.8 KB.
[image]
Throw in 4 more and you're pissing bandwidth costs for your server.
Link to a much larger makes sense, but to embed into the page a bloated PNG not designed for this purpose is truly says one is ignorant of graphic formats.
Is that why they took so long to load? I was on my iPhone and thought it was my cellular data connection but when other sites were fine I then loaded a different AI page which was fine so I then reloaded the images. That's pretty shitty.
I had to reload the page three times just to see the images. It kept timing out. I just assumed there were millions of people all trying to see the page at the same time.
Only a moron embedded lossless PNGs, each at 1.4MB when an equivalent non-compressed JPEG is 206.8 KB.
That was epic. This blog is proudly ignorant of spelling, grammar, style, formatting, programming skill, and file formats. The important thing is that Google ads were shown; that is all that matters.
I had to reload the page three times just to see the images. It kept timing out. I just assumed there were millions of people all trying to see the page at the same time.
I assumed something was slow with my Internet connection, then I went to another site, and saw that everything was fast.
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P.S. I dig the banding for the antennas. Beautiful merging of scientific design.
What are you talking about "decorative"? Apple does not do decorative.
For all you know, those inserts you're calling "bands" are the antennas, made of ceramic mixed with sintered metal, with electrical connections to the inside. Just an example of what they could be.
The leap to hand-wringing here is just astounding. The first thing you should do is trust that Apple knows what they are doing.
And another thing. I think they look good. Inlaying elements flush into plain—or plane—surfaces always adds tactile and visual interest, but the effect can only be appreciated with the device in your hand. When you see it in a 2D photograph only, it is your impoverished left brain that's doing the judging.
For all you know this is just a fake mockup... I hope it is
The same people who bitch about the lack of waterproof as a must have feature demand the iPad be a half a pound/270+ grams lighter for when they lie their lazy ass on their back looking up to read: something you ergonomically should never do as you tend to fall asleep.
They scoff at lifting some weights [like 5 lbs] so it is not surprising they'd shit a brick over style that they themselves know will eventually be copied by every damn vendor on the planet.
A~nd... he’s immediately fired.
Do you know what a phone is? Do you have any idea? Have you ever seen an iPhone before?
Take your FUD and shove it. Honestly, why you people are allowed to keep saying these things I’ll never know.
They did that eight years ago. There has always been an ugliest iPhone since the existence of the iPhone. It’s a different phone for everyone.
LOL, you must be stupid or dense...
You're not a good poker player. These late in the game leaks are final products.
Don't use your phone in the pool! Unbelievable.
now that is a compromise...
Your justification for this being what? Feel free to explain why the antenna bands are no longer antenna bands. We’ll wait.
Ditto. Perhaps they'll look fine in a better light.
No-one wants to hear your whining.
Get a faster connection and stay on topic.
Until Apple decides to show us something there is nothing that can be proven. A rumoured leaked product from something that is commonly cloned in China is not a smoking gun. All you have is a bunch of circumstantial evidence and history that tells you that the odds of it being accurate are excellent but that isn't proof.
Cool it!
It's not whining.
Only a moron embedded lossless PNGs, each at 1.4MB when an equivalent non-compressed JPEG is 206.8 KB.
Throw in 4 more and you're pissing bandwidth costs for your server.
Link to a much larger makes sense, but to embed into the page a bloated PNG not designed for this purpose is truly says one is ignorant of graphic formats.
Is that why they took so long to load? I was on my iPhone and thought it was my cellular data connection but when other sites were fine I then loaded a different AI page which was fine so I then reloaded the images. That's pretty shitty.
I would buy a phone where you can REALLY expect heavy 12hr use and still not get battery anxiety.
Battery anxiety is the WORST part of any smartphone experience... It literally trumps everything else.
The bands might have purpose - Just few wild guesses
1. It might be translucent light, similar to the Macbook Apple logo. Different light means different thing.
2. Could there be hidden sensors?
3. Could be contact points for wireless charging?
They surround the metal antenna inserted into the previously-seen recesses in the ends of the bare metal backshell, incidentally putting paid to the hysteria about the "protruding" camera lens. These may be the antennas for this unnecessary NFC feature, since that's so much longer-wavelength that the plastic insert in the Apple logo wouldn't do the job.
Those bands are for NFC, as it would be problematic to transmit if the whole back were metal. NFC will be an important feature of the iPhone 6.
NFC and Touch ID will both be found in the home button, as Apple holds a patent for that.
Actually, I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I just felt like playing a douchebag analyst for a moment and make a crazy prediction.
It's not whining.
Only a moron embedded lossless PNGs, each at 1.4MB when an equivalent non-compressed JPEG is 206.8 KB.
[image]
Throw in 4 more and you're pissing bandwidth costs for your server.
Link to a much larger makes sense, but to embed into the page a bloated PNG not designed for this purpose is truly says one is ignorant of graphic formats.
Is that why they took so long to load? I was on my iPhone and thought it was my cellular data connection but when other sites were fine I then loaded a different AI page which was fine so I then reloaded the images. That's pretty shitty.
I had to reload the page three times just to see the images. It kept timing out. I just assumed there were millions of people all trying to see the page at the same time.
Haha!! You're in the right place! Everyone's an expert here.
That was epic. This blog is proudly ignorant of spelling, grammar, style, formatting, programming skill, and file formats. The important thing is that Google ads were shown; that is all that matters.
I assumed something was slow with my Internet connection, then I went to another site, and saw that everything was fast.